Software Engineer in Test

BBC; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Join BBC Sounds as a Tester and contribute to enhancing online content for millions. You will work with a cross-discipline agile team to implement automation testing, ensuring high-quality user experiences in a dynamic environment that values diversity.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution up to 10%

26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible working arrangements

Learning and development opportunities

Employee assistance and well-being programmes

Qualifications

• Experience of developing automated acceptance tests, preferably in JavaScript and related frameworks.
• Experience of working on an agile team.
• Passionate about quality and audience experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement BDD automation using JavaScript and Selenium webDriver.
• Run manual and exploratory testing.
• Shape our automation frameworks and pipelines.

Skills

JavaScript

Selenium

TDD

BDD

Playwright

Time Management

Exploratory Testing

Accessibility Testing

Job description

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• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
• 26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
• Employee assistance and well-being programmes
• Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.
  
  

Job Package

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £50,000-£56,000

Location: London Broadcasting House

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package Includes

• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
• 26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
• Employee assistance and well-being programmes
• Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.
  
  

Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on [e-mail] the job reference in the subject.

Job Introduction

BBC is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved brands. BBC Sounds and iPlayer are renowned and loved throughout the UK and the world. The BBC has become a household name which delivers online content to more than 25 million people globally, and we are proud to say that we help make that magic happen!

The Sounds and iPlayer teams are conceiving the next generation of features for our audiences. Our mission is to secure the Internet future of the BBC.

It is an exciting time to join the Sounds team because we aim to become the number one online audio service in the UK. The BBC is a place where your work impacts 25 million users every day across our products, outputting 40 million hours of content. This role is an opportunity to work on software at a scale that is hard to find. We’re looking for a passionate Tester to join our fast-paced cross-discipline agile teams iterating on our key products.

We provide you with a great work-life balance and a competitive work package. There are also great opportunities to grow your career within the team or the wider organisation. As part of BBC Sounds and iPlayer, you will be at the heart of the Internet first BBC.

We have an internal Academy department to ensure you have the training needed to advance in your career from soft skills to technical training such as AWS, cloud architecture and micro-services, to name a few.

We allow for flexible working, a 35-hour week and 26 days of annual leave plus the opportunity to buy more. We are happy to consider flexible work based on your circumstances.

Main Responsibilities

• Implement BDD automation using JavaScript and Selenium webDriver
• Pair with Software Engineers and Testers on planning, defining, and running tests for web releases
• Run manual and exploratory testing
• Shape our automation frameworks and pipelines
• Be a good communicator who can report on test-related issues and risks
• Learn new technologies and apply your learning to projects where appropriate
  
  

Are you the right candidate?

Essential Skills

• Experience of developing automated acceptance tests, preferably in JavaScript,Typescript, Node.Js Selenium, Cucumber
• Experience of working on an agile team
• Knowledge of Playwright
• Effort estimation, planning, prioritisation, and time management
• Developing tests using TDD/BDD techniques
• Manual and exploratory testing of web-based products
• Passionate about developing automated solutions for test problems
• The ability to communicate efficiently verbally and in writing
• Passion for quality and audience experience
• Learning new software skills and working with new technologies
• Understanding of cross browser testing
• Accessibility testing and its importance
  
  

Desirable Skills & Experience

• CI/CD experience
• Past experience of co-operating with an API or backend team
• Jenkins or AWS CodePipeline
• Exposure to accessibility testing
• AWS and AWS tools
• Deployment experience - into test or live environments
• Experience of working with other teams to improve testing across an organisation
  
  

About The BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviors here.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

For any general queries, please contact: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Broadcast Media Production and Distribution

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